S1E248 - Essential Apple Podcast 248: Essential [Christmas Party] Work Meeting

Christmas Party Time (Oh no, sorry… Essential Work Meeting). Jeff Gamet, GazMaz, Patrice Brendamour and Mark join the regulars Nick, Simon and Jim to just chatter a bit and enjoy some Festive Cheer. With so many of us it got a bit chaotic at times, and there’s no real notes because… well – you will find out! Merry Christmas Everybody! Back in the New Year…

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Recorded 20th December 2021

NICK RILEY

@spligosh on Twitter very occasionally.
Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots’ Let’s Talk Apple
Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube
Nick’s church stream videos on You Tube

JAMES ORMISTON

MacJim in the Slack
Also on Flickr as Ormie (O)
Has videos on Vimeo

JEFF GAMET

@jgamet on Twitter and Instagram
Appears frequently on The British Tech Network’s Big Show and Mac Show, MacVoices, In Touch With iOS and ‘occasionally’ elsewhere.

PATRICE BREND’AMOUR

@casual_kitchen on Twitter
Find all her stuff at ThePatrice.com
Host of Foodie Flashback
Appears frequently on The British Tech Network’s Big Show and Mac Show, and In Touch With iOS

GAZMAZ

@GazMaz on Twitter
Co-host of the MyMac Podcast
Appears on the For Mac Eyes Only Podcast sometimes

MARK CHAPPELL

@oceanspeed, @essentialapple and @essentialmac on Twitter
Puts weird Van Life Stuff (including cooking with Gousto) on YouTube

WORTH A CHIRP / ESSENTIAL TIPS

From Allister (@zkarj) I have an album in iCloud Photos with just under 600 photos, but around a dozen of them would simply not download to my iPhone or iPad. I checked and they are all visible both on my Mac and in iCloud.com (http://icloud.com/). I’ve seen this before and cured it by removing the photos (using the Mac) and adding them back again, but I detest this approach, particularly when they are in an album. Tonight I thought to myself… “what happens if I edit one of the photos on the Mac?” So I tried it. I goosed the brilliance up by 0.01 and what do you know, it made it download to my phone! Thinking I had the upper hand I then clicked “Revert to original” so my photo would be unsullied by even this minute adjustment. I was blown away when my iPhone un-downloaded the photo! Having resigned myself to this +0.01 brilliance, I set about doing the rest, and that is when a slip of the mouse showed me something curious. Now all of the recalcitrant photos have had their brilliance sliders adjusted from the original 0.00 to… -0.00.

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